Rumour has it that Arnie’s The Expendables co-star would be launching the music of director Shankar’s I in Telugu

When the Terminator star flew down to Chennai for Vikram‘s I audio launch, the entire Tamil film fraternity extended their hospitality to the Hollywood superstar. While it is beyond doubt that the audio launch event was nothing short of a spectacle, it was the presence of Arnie which made the evening extra special.

After the grand audio launch in Tamil, the makers have planned a spectacular music launch in Telugu too by inviting a celeb as popular as Mr Schwarzenegger, for the event. A little birdie tells us that producer Aascar Ravichandran and director Shankar have roped in The Expendables star Sylvester Stallone to do the honours at the Telugu music launch event.

Earlier it was rumoured that Rush Hour actor Jackie Chan would be gracing the Telugu audio launch event of I. But going by the fan frenzy surrounding Arnold, the makers have now planned to invite yet another Hollywood muscle man, Stallone, to the grand event. While there has been no official confirmation, the fans are keeping their fingers crossed to see the Rocky actor close and upfront at the I Telugu audio launch event at Hyderabad.

]]>http://www.bollywoodlife.com/south-gossip/after-arnold-schwarzenegger-sylvester-stallone-to-promote-vikrams-i/feed/2Zanjeer: Little known facts about the original and the remake!http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/zanjeer-little-known-facts-about-the-original-and-the-remake/
http://www.bollywoodlife.com/news-gossip/zanjeer-little-known-facts-about-the-original-and-the-remake/#commentsThu, 05 Sep 2013 04:45:08 +0000Dhiren Trivedihttp://www.bollywoodlife.com/?p=262563

Apoorva Lakhia’s remake starring Ram Charan Teja, Sanjay Dutt and Priyanka Chopra is all set to release this Friday. We dig out some interesting facts related to the 1973 Amitabh Bachchan starrer and the remake that you may not know…

While promoting Zanjeer 2.0, Priyanka Chopra said, “It’s been a very difficult journey for Zanjeer. Director Apoorva Lakhia had the guts to helm the iconic 1973 Prakash Mehra directed action flick.” Ever since Lakhia started shooting his remake, it grabbed all the unwanted attention and got lot of negative publicity. But here are some interesting facts about the movie. You must know what made the original 1973 Prakash Mehra directed movie one of Amitabh Bachchan’s most remembered films of his career and what has Lakhia done to better the original if not surpass it!

Call it a co-incidence or a planned move, the fact is that Ram Charan Teja happened to meet the original Inspector Vijay Khanna – Amitabh Bachchan on the first day of Zanjeer shoot as they were shooting in the same vicinity. Lucky Ram!

Khochey Pathan is the second qawwaliSanjay Dutt has ever done in his career. The first was in Reshma Aur Shera more than four decades ago when Sanju baba was a cute kid! He did this even before his debut film Rocky, Sanjay Dutt was then seen as a child artist in the film.

While everyone associated with the remake talks about it being their tribute to the original and people associated with it – right from Amitabh Bachchan to writers Salim and Javed to Ajit, Priyanka Chopra said Zanjeer is her tribute to Jaya Bachchan. “Since Jayaji played a chaku-churi wali street girl in the original, in my first scene in Zanjeer I too use a knife and threaten goondas who chase me. The new Mala is totally different.”

While the original Sher Khan – Pran left us this year for heavenly abode, the new Sher Khan – Sanjay Dutt unfortunately wouldn’t be able to watch the remake as he’s serving his jail sentence.

After the success of Prakash Mehra’s Zanjeer, writer duo – Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar wanted the movie to be remade in English.

Not many of the present generation would know that the role portrayed by Amitabh Bachchan in Zanjeer was initially offered to Dev Anand, Dharmendra and Raj Kumar. But as luck would have it, they rejected it and upon Pran’s recommendation, Mehra gave the role to Amitabh, and the rest they say is history.

In one of Prakash Mehra’s interviews, he had said: “Zanjeer actually wasn’t my film. The film was bought by Dharmendra from Salim-Javed. Dharmendra came to know that I was planning to make a film called Samadhi written by Pandit Mukhram Sharma. He liked the story idea and told me to exchange the script with that of Zanjeer.

There were no financiers and distributors for the Prakash Mehra movie as they didn’t like the filmmaker settling for Amitabh Bachchan as his film’s hero since Big B wasn’t a known name then.

While most of the film has been tweaked or altered to suit the modern time, Apoorva Lakhia has retained the iconic dialogue that made the star out of Amitabh Bachchan – Jab tak baithne ko na kahaa jaaye. One has to see how it eventually turns out forty years later between Ram and Sanjay!

Apoorva has introduced a new character called Day in his remake to be essayed by Atul Kulkarni. Ironically, his character is said to be modeled on the late senior crime reporter J Dey (from Mid Day) who reportedly got killed by Mumbai underworld.

In order to match up to the angry young man image and get into the action-packed avatar, Ram Charan had specially flown down a special trainer from Australia and worked out for almost three to four hours, day and night with him for his action scenes!

The Policegiri actor turns a year older today

Born on July 29, 1959, Sanjay Dutt started his career with Rocky (1981). The actor is currently serving his three and a half year term at the Yerwada jail and will have a quiet birthday this year. But a couple of the actor’s Bollywood friends have been making sure that he doesn’t have a lonely b’day. They have written him letters and wished him a happy b’day. We also hear that his wife Manyata Dutt has tattooed his named on her ring finger. We think that’s a super sweet gesture and it seems Sanju baba got a tad emotional when he heard that. Dutt will be seen essaying the role of Sher Khan in Zanjeer.

We wait to see Sanju baba as this legendary character which was originally played by Pran in the 1973 blockbuster…

The actor has led a life full of nasty downs and a few happy ups

Sanjay Dutt, who was born to superstar parents Sunil Dutt and Nargis, first faced the camera as a child artist in Reshma Aur Shera (1972). But with all the pressure of being a celebrity child and unable to deal with expectations, Sanjay took to drugs very early; the fact that his mother had cancer pushed him further into the smoked-up world.

Mother Nargis passes away

Sanjay’s first film Rocky released in 1981 and during that time his mother passed away. A devastated Sanju baba didn’t find the emotional support he required from his father Sunil Dutt, because the elder too was drowned in grief. Drugs, as many say, was the only thing Sanjay found solace in.

Sanjay sent to rehabilitation centre

Sanjay delivered another superhit with Vidhaata in 1982. And his life revolved around rave parties. The media printed many stories that revealed Dutt’s wasted lifestyle. And matters got so out of hand that Subhash Ghai refused to cast him for one of his movies. That’s when father Sunil Dutt stepped in and sent Sanjay packing to America to a rehabilitation centre.

Sanjay’s first marriage…and divorce

After coming back from America he married starlet Richa Sharma in 1987. They had a daughter (Trishala) together and for a brief while Sanju’s life ran smoothly. The actor also worked in memorable hits like Naam (1986), Hathiyaar (1989), Saajan (1991), Sadak (1991) and Khalnayak (1993). But then Richa was diagnosed with cancer, and Sanjay’s life again turned upside down.

Sanjay gets linked to the underworld

This was the time that Sanjay became linked to the underworld and in April 1993 was arrested for having illegal weapons in his possession – he claimed he had acquired them for personal protection. At that time, he spent approximately 18 months in jail. And he drew tremendous emotional support from his loved ones, especially his then girlfriend Rhea Pillai. Sunil Dutt, who had a strong political standing during that time, managed to release his son on bail.

Sanjay loses daughter Trishala’s custody

Around the same time Sanjay was also fighting a bitter legal battle with Richa over the custody of their daughter Trishala. Richa succumbed to a brain tumour in 1996; Sanjay lost the custody of his daughter to her grandparents, based in the US.

Sanjay’s second divorce and father Sunil Dutt’s death

Sanjay started resurrecting his broken career and was seen in movies like Daud (1997). Daag – The Fire (1999) and Vasstav (1999). But while his filmi career was inching back on track, his marriage with Rhea was on the rocks and eventually they separated.

In 2004 Sanjay Dutt re-found stardom, thanks to Munnabhai MBBS, but soon after lost his father Sunil Dutt in 2005.

Sanjay sentenced to five years imprisonment

On July 31, 2007 Sanjay Dutt was sentenced to six years imprisonment. But he was released on bail soon after. He filed an appeal in the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, Sanjay fell in love with Maanyata aka Dilnawaz Sheikh in 2008 and the two have twins – boy Shahraan and girl Iqra – together.

But Sanjay Dutt’s life has been toppled over yet again with the Supreme Court’s verdict sentencing the actor to five years imprisonment.

The Rascals actor cuts off his seven-month-old association with his business manager for reasons best known to him

They say – ‘Behind every successful man, there is a woman’. Like every other man, we are sure Sanjay Dutt too would also agree to this, (with or without hurting his male ego!) especially after his marriage to Maanayata Dutt. We too agree, but we believe besides his dearest homemaker, the credit also goes to his business manager Reshma Shetty who has relentlessly worked with Dutt for seven months, and has been instrumental in uplifting his otherwise dipping film career. But with the latest fallout reports coming in, we couldn’t stop but wonder what’s wrong with Sanju baba, who has lost his second business manager in a year. Hmm…

It’s learnt that the two parted ways over the actor’s inability to follow her guidelines. And instead of listening to her ‘in-your-favour’ advice, the Rocky actor asked Shetty to put down her papers… in not too polite language… oops! If a source close to the actor is to be believed, Reshma had a long meeting with her star client, and after the discussion, she realised that there was no way she could convince the actor to modify his way of working, something that she had done successfully with her other star client, Salman Khan. So sadly, Shetty failed in her mission to convince Dutt!

But not to forget that the Munnabhai actor had an ugly fallout with his ex-manager, Dharam Oberoi, during Ram Gopal Varma’s Department, after which Dutt showed Oberoi the door. On the contrary, close associates of Sanju baba believe that he was a very moody person but he has mellowed down a lot post marriage and is taking his film career seriously. And Sanjay is also known to patch up with his friends quickly. Remember his patch up with Sanjay Gupta and Kangna Ranaut last year?

So in this case, we wonder if a jaadu ki jhappi would cement the broken relationship between Dutt and Shetty. What do you think BollywoodLifers?

The traditional housewife has started donning classy stilettos and is all set to embrace a ‘cool’ outlook. But how far will she go to look hep and happening?

After looking at her husband Lucky Singh Ahluwalia (Vivek Mushran) and kids Rocky (Tapasvi Mehta) and Ginni (Aashika Bhatia) go gaga over Mandira aunty (Kamya Punjabi) aka Mandy, Sweety (Shweta Tiwari) decides to follow the ‘modern’ lady’s lifestyle in Parvarrish – Kuchh Khattee Kuchh Meethi. But all that only make her family realise how futile all this sho-sha is.

But alas, none of Sweetyji aka Sweets’ endeavours have borne the desired fruits. The traditional biwi now looks ultra-modern in skinny jeans and designer tops. She’s even thrown poor Luckyji out of their bedroom in the fake want of desired ‘space’. But nothing has worked yet. Sigh!

So her darling Daddyji (Rajesh Puri) suggests she try and introduce a new man in her life ‘coz that will probably make her now-blissful pati sit up and take notice of her. And guess what, Sweetyjihas agreed to this strategy.

For all you viewers who seem horrified by this twist, here’s a relieving detail – Daddyji will pretend to be Guddu, the boy friend. Phew! So guess Sweets will fake it this time too.

But for how long? And what if the new strategy doesn’t work? Will the housewife go to the extent of having a real affair? Time to wait and watch!

The Department actor talks about sharing space with Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt

Though Rana Daggubati’s first film, Dum Maaro Dum, wasn’t a huge hit but he has been lucky to be doing his next film with Amitabh Bachchan and Sanjay Dutt. If the trailer of Department is any thing to go by, Rana’s character looks impressive, especially when he is seen with Big B. RGV seems to have had a lot of fun with his leading men – all spouting punchlines and creating havoc. In a recent interview, Rana said, “Mr Bachchan has been doing films from the time when I wasn’t even born and Sanjay Dutt’s ‘Rocky’ was released before my birth. They are industry veterans and all us kids have grown up on their films. To be standing in front of these legends and to do an action drama is one mighty challenge.” The cast definitely sounds exciting, but do you think this RGV film will work?

Producer and mother of Ishaqzaade actor Arjun Kapoor lost her battle against cancer and her fellow B-towners are sad that she didn’t live to see her son’s debut film

It’s almost as if history is repeating itself in two different families. It happened to Sanjay Dutt and now it’s happening to Arjun Kapoor. Sanjay’s mother Nargis Dutt succumbed to cancer in 1981, a few days before Sanjay’s debut film Rocky was to hit the theatres. And now, Mona Kapoor has lost her battle against the same dreaded disease, as Arjun gears up for the release of his debut film Ishaqzaade. Mona had been suffering from cancer for several months now and had been undergoing treatment at Hinduja Hospital in Mumbai. Her close ones had been hopeful that she would recover. She had even posted a message on Twitter, “once more any1 asks hw I am I wl block them. U all knw I am in hosp n battlng stagr 3 multiple organs cancer. Kindly pray fr me. Thts all.”

Mona has produced television serials like Yug and Hera Pheri and is the CEO of Future Studios, but it was her warm personality that B-towners remembered when news of her passing away spread. B-town celebs expressed their grief on micro-blogging site Twitter. Amitabh Bachchan tweeted, “T 694 -Just heard the sad news of Mona Kapoor passing away … wife of Boney Kapoor, loved and admired by all .. prayers and condolences !!” Akshay Kumar said, “Extremely saddened to hear about the demise of Mona Kapoor, a very affectionate, supportive and positive human being. May God bless her soul and give strength to her family. RIP.”

Karan Johar posted, “Mona kapoor was one of the most gracious,dignified and loving human beings i knew…she felt only positivity for one and all…RIP ma’m…” Priety Zinta said, “R.I.P Mona Kapoor ! May her soul rest in peace. I did not know her personally, but I hear she was a brave woman of substance!” Divya Dutta tweeted, “Very sad! Some friends n well wshers make you strong wth their unconditional support!mona kapoor was one of them!true friend!always there..”Anupam Kher said, “Is God feeling insecure? He is calling all good people. Very sad to know about Mona Kapoor’s death. She was a very helpful & kind lady. RIP” Tusshar Kapoor posted, “Really sad to hear about the sudden demise of Mona Kapoor, she was a warm person who always wished me well!”

Minissha Lamba said, “R.I.P Monaji! You were a beautiful soul who only had kind words and positive action… An incredible woman of substance!” Shilpa Shetty said, “RIP Monaji,loved ure strength and eternally positive attitude. You will be missed. Condolences nd prayers to the Kapoor family ” Shekhar Kapoor tweeted, “Will always remember Mona Kapoor for her kindness and gentleness. Known her since she first met Boney Kapoor.” We at BollywoodLife hope that her noble soul rests in peace.

Sly Stallone’s action trainer JJ Perry was impressed with John’s look in Force and has offered him a film

Nowadays, Bollywood seems to rock in Hollywood as well. The people from Hollywood are said to be very impressed with our B-town stars and approaching them to work in LA. Bollywood has a history of people who have worked in Hollywood from the time of black and white cinema. Recently, quite a few big names have been added to the list like Amitabh Bachchan, Aishwarya Rai, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan, Mallika Sherawat, etc. Now probably, one more name can be added there, and that name is John Abraham. It is said that B-town’s brand new action hero, who had a very sexy and tough look in Force has been approached to work in a Hollywood film along with Sylvester Stallone and Gerard Butler. John has successfully managed to attract the attention of Hollywood stars and their action trainers. Sources revealed that Stallone’s action trainer JJ Perry was impressed with John in his latest movie Force and approached the actor for his upcoming movie. If all goes right, we will be able to see our Johnny boy working with the ‘Rocky’ of Hollywood, Sylvester Stallone, and 300 star Gerard Butler.